Copim

Copim is a community of people and organisations working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books. Together, we collaborate on community-led and values-driven initiatives, which help to support open access authors, publishers and readers.

Use our site to find out more about us and our past and present projects, explore the initiatives, guides and resources we have developed and browse our documentation and software.

Community working to improve OA book publishing (2019–)
Research project (2023–2026)
Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
Research project (2019–2023)
Charity enabling financial support for OA initiatives
Open metadata management and dissemination platform
Funding model for OA books
Toolkit for Small and Scholar-Led Open Access Publishers
Guide for smaller and scholar-led OA publishers
Guide to experimental publishing tools, practices and books
How to Implement an Equitable Revenue Model for Open Access Monographs
Guide to running an Opening the Future programme at an academic press
PubPub site for project info, updates and open documentation
Archive of publications from our community
Repositories for our open source software